Astrid Chesney graduated from the Royal College of Art having previously studied Illustration BA (Hons) at the University of Brighton. She has since continued to develop her visual language through her personal and professional work. Astrid lives and works in London where her work draws on the everyday, people and places.
Clients include: Penguin, the Guardian, Pentagram, Canongate Books, the New York Times, Studio 8, Oprah Magazine, Random House, John Murray Publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, Oberon Books, the Independent, Telegraph on Sunday, NB Studio, Creative Review, Dazed&Confused, Varoom, the Picture Book, Time Magazine Asia, Ambit, Le Gun, Uniqlo.
Exhibitions Include: Royal College of Art: Folio Society Awards, Oberon Books Awards, The Frieze- Hockney Gallery. Le Gun, The French Institute, Chelsea Arts Club, Macondo- Hoxton Square, Gallery 4, ‘The World of Inferiors’- solo show at Dazed & Confused Gallery, Premiere Vision-Paris, ‘The Family’ by Le Gun (London group show) at the Rochelle School, Comica Festival/ PoCom group show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London).